Music nostalgia, (was Sun Songs)

[Guest guest]

I used to trip on Pink Floyd too - The Wall, Animals, Dark Side of the

Moon etc. Knew every word of the lyrics of some of those albums.

 

And Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick, Bungle in the Jungle etc.

 

Also Quadrophenia by The Who. I recall a couplet that I once thought was

way cool:

 

"I'm seeing in the double, come miss me if you can

 

There's gonna be trouble, when she chooses her man!"

 

I seem to connect with the moody blues in every language - english,

hindi and malayalam. Although my heart has hardened considerably in

recent years, songs such as Kuchh to Log Kahenge

<http://www.musicindiaonline.com/p/x/A4fmoEm0Ed.As1NMvHdW/>  from the

1971 hindi movie Amar Prem still get through to me with lines like:

 

"Tu kaun hai, tera naam hai kya

 

Sita bhi yahan badnaam hui

 

Phir kyon sansar ki baaton se,

 

bhig gaye tere naina?"

 

Translation:

 

Who are you? A non-entity

 

Even Sita was maligned in this world

 

Then why do you let the world's (snide) comments

 

Soak your eyes?

 

And then there was a phase with Amma's bhajans. Seemed like that high

octane devotional music had the potential to burn away the dross. But

such moments, when music cuts through to the heart, are few and far

between. For the most part, I am stuck with listening to a very very

long play version of the death rattle of life.

 

Om Amriteshwaryai Namah

 

fg

 

Ammachi, "manoj_menon" <ammademon> wrote:

>

> Amazing as it may sound, I survived on Pink Floyd during my teens.

>

> I still like bits of their music, but mostly I find them

> psychidelically depressing.

>

> "Shine on you crazy diamond" is very nice though. was that entire

> album not dedicated for Syd Barrett, their ex-lead who died of drug

> overdose?

>

> I also liked "welcome my son, welcome to the machine".

>

> thanks for the nostalgia trip!

>

>

>

>

> Ammachi, "ckeniley2003" ckeniley2003@ wrote:

> >

> > You know what is interesting? they actually played "shine on you

> > crazy diamond" over the sound system at the retreat during cleanup.

> > The devotees loved it, that guitar solo intro has always been a

> > favorite of mine.

> >

> > Ammachi, "Rachel Barrett Gallop"

> > <hipstorian@> wrote:

> > >

> > > Alt American pop bhajan equivalents for sweet suns like Temba:

> > >

> > > 1. Pink Floyd, "Shine On you crazy diamond" (1975)